Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 75 60
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,367 1,531 3,688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 3.73% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 4.02% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 919 1,056 2,789
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,474 38,128 79,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.94% 92.95% 86.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,284 22,513 58,929
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 1,246 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +8 677 £87,500 +2.94% 226
Work from Home -25 605 £70,000 -3.11% 349
UK excluding London -115 578 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -42 263 £69,310 -3.72% 130
South East -116 121 £75,000 +11.11% 90
North West -48 120 £70,000 -3.45% 76
Yorkshire -42 101 £69,310 -3.72% 31
South West -85 59 £62,500 -8.79% 35
Midlands -74 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East +2 42 £66,250 +26.19% 28
East of England -29 40 £63,750 +10.87% 20
West Midlands -30 34 £72,500 +3.57% 21
Scotland -74 31 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -67 23 £67,250 +3.46% 15
Wales -29 10 £54,185 +6.25% 13
Northern Ireland -41 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.54%) Apache
3 18 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.32%) Confluence
4 15 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (0.88%) JBoss
6 11 (0.80%) IIS
6 11 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.73%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.66%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.37%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.073%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.51%) Maya
4 5 (0.37%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.073%) Actimize
6 1 (0.073%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.073%) Quorum
6 1 (0.073%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.073%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.073%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 751 (54.94%) AWS
2 567 (41.48%) Azure
3 310 (22.68%) GCP
4 242 (17.70%) Serverless
5 164 (12.00%) SaaS
6 117 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
7 116 (8.49%) GitHub
8 112 (8.19%) Amazon S3
9 104 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
14 56 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 49 (3.58%) OpenShift
17 47 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
19 40 (2.93%) PaaS
20 38 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.73%) Broadband
2 10 (0.73%) HTTP
2 10 (0.73%) Network Security
3 9 (0.66%) AMQP
4 7 (0.51%) Firewall
4 7 (0.51%) Internet
5 6 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) DHCP
6 5 (0.37%) MQTT
7 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.29%) SNMP
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) LTE
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) RFID
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (13.53%) NoSQL
2 168 (12.29%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (8.49%) MongoDB
4 108 (7.90%) SQL Server
5 72 (5.27%) MySQL
6 67 (4.90%) DynamoDB
7 63 (4.61%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.85%) Redis
10 35 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (2.41%) BigQuery
12 30 (2.19%) Big Data
13 22 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.61%) RDBMS
14 14 (1.02%) Power BI
15 13 (0.95%) DB2
15 13 (0.95%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 183 (13.39%) Git
2 122 (8.92%) Jenkins
3 90 (6.58%) GitLab
4 57 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.58%) JIRA
6 42 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.41%) JUnit
8 31 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 31 (2.27%) Selenium
9 30 (2.19%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.32%) Maven
12 17 (1.24%) Mockito
13 14 (1.02%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.80%) Vite
16 10 (0.73%) JMeter
16 10 (0.73%) Postman
17 8 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 406 (29.70%) Finance
2 357 (26.12%) Social Skills
3 166 (12.14%) Banking
4 104 (7.61%) Law
5 99 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 87 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (5.93%) Retail
8 73 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (4.17%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.88%) Telecoms
11 46 (3.37%) Back Office
12 26 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.39%) Billing
13 19 (1.39%) Legal
14 17 (1.24%) Advertising
14 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.10%) Games
16 14 (1.02%) Marketing
17 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 463 (33.87%) Developer
2 355 (25.97%) Senior
3 284 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 215 (15.73%) Architect
5 178 (13.02%) Lead
6 115 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 115 (8.41%) Senior Developer
7 106 (7.75%) Java Developer
8 98 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 89 (6.51%) Java Engineer
11 71 (5.19%) .NET Developer
12 64 (4.68%) Software Developer
13 52 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 48 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.44%) Lead Developer
16 44 (3.22%) Principal Engineer
17 42 (3.07%) C# Developer
18 40 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
19 38 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (22.53%) React
2 295 (21.58%) .NET
3 278 (20.34%) RESTful
4 219 (16.02%) Spring
5 212 (15.51%) REST
6 200 (14.63%) Node.js
7 192 (14.05%) Spring Boot
8 176 (12.87%) Kafka
9 106 (7.75%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.80%) gRPC
11 85 (6.22%) .NET Core
12 81 (5.93%) HTML
13 72 (5.27%) CSS
14 66 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.68%) .NET Framework
16 56 (4.10%) ASP.NET
16 56 (4.10%) Vue
17 53 (3.88%) Middleware
18 52 (3.80%) Django
19 50 (3.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 404 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 239 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (7.75%) Product Ownership
4 91 (6.66%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.29%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.85%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 29 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.68%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.61%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.17%) IoT
16 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.83%) Linux
2 27 (1.98%) Windows
3 16 (1.17%) Android
4 9 (0.66%) Unix
5 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.44%) CentOS
6 6 (0.44%) Debian
6 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.073%) VMS
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (48.43%) CI/CD
2 543 (39.72%) Agile
3 533 (38.99%) DevOps
4 529 (38.70%) Software Engineering
5 381 (27.87%) Containerisation
6 313 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 292 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (20.92%) Mentoring
9 280 (20.48%) Event-Driven
10 265 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 265 (19.39%) Test Automation
11 240 (17.56%) AI
12 207 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 196 (14.34%) Computer Science
14 162 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 161 (11.78%) Scrum
16 160 (11.70%) Clean Code
16 160 (11.70%) Roadmaps
17 156 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
18 147 (10.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 446 (32.63%) Java
2 382 (27.94%) Python
3 287 (20.99%) SQL
4 262 (19.17%) JavaScript
5 244 (17.85%) C#
6 211 (15.44%) TypeScript
7 128 (9.36%) Go
8 51 (3.73%) Scala
9 42 (3.07%) C++
9 42 (3.07%) PHP
10 35 (2.56%) Bash
10 35 (2.56%) C
11 29 (2.12%) Ruby
12 22 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 22 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.24%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.95%) Rust
16 10 (0.73%) Groovy
17 8 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 197 (14.41%) Degree
2 121 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 117 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 86 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 60 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 38 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (1.17%) CISSP
11 11 (0.80%) CISM
12 9 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.59%) PhD
14 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.14%) QA
2 32 (2.34%) GDPR
3 27 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 24 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.02%) NIST
7 11 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.73%) NCSC
9 8 (0.59%) GRC
10 6 (0.44%) IFRS
11 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.073%) EMIR
14 1 (0.073%) PSD2
System Software
1 412 (30.14%) Docker
2 13 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 423 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 246 (18.00%) Terraform
3 90 (6.58%) Grafana
4 77 (5.63%) Ansible
5 39 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.68%) Kibana
7 16 (1.17%) Argo
8 9 (0.66%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.51%) Puppet
10 6 (0.44%) Cilium
11 4 (0.29%) Istio
11 4 (0.29%) Packer
11 4 (0.29%) Rancher
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 122 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.54%) Google
3 51 (3.73%) Oracle
4 45 (3.29%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.39%) IBM
6 16 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.17%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.10%) SAP
8 13 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 13 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.73%) Cisco
9 10 (0.73%) Software AG
9 10 (0.73%) Splunk
10 9 (0.66%) Databricks
10 9 (0.66%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.44%) BiZZdesign